A private plane carrying 53 cats and kittens landed in Minnesota on Saturday! 😺✈️ Hurricane Michael took the roof off their Alabama shelter, and these sweet felines were moved to temporary housing in a crowded warehouse. Weeks passed, but no shelters in the area had room for 50 extra cats – so Animal Humane Society was called to help. The generous volunteer pilots at @WingsOfRescue have been flying dogs and cats out of storm-damaged areas to shelters across the country, and agreed to make a stop in St. Paul to deliver this precious cargo. The cats are now safely at AHS receiving lots of TLC, and will soon be ready to find loving homes for the holidays! If you’re interested in adopting, please look for them on our website (link in profile). ❤️ Thank you for your continued support of AHS – the generosity of donors like you means we’re able to do more for animals in Minnesota and across the country!
#animalhumanemn #catsofinstagram #catsofminnesota #hurricanemichael #stpaul #goldenvalley #wingsofrescue

Hurricane Michael relief supplies rolling out over the weekend. A big THANK YOU to Torrey & Ashley and everyone who contributed to the effort.

2018-11-19 22:10
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Your story is not finished. It may sound like a cliché phrase we easily throw around, but so much truth lies in it all the same. People have gone through great adversity throughout all of history but it was only a chapter in their life’s story. All that has happened to you…all that is still happening will only last a season. The worst moment of your worst day is just that…a moment…a day…a season. Life on earth is filled with hardships and heartaches…but it’s also filled with better days ahead, overcoming obstacles, and mended, joyful hearts. Your story is not finished.
Jesus told stories. It’s how he was able to relate to the people he came into contact with and how he was able to get on their level so to speak. He told his stories to people, then he would explain how that story related to their current situation. (Matthew 13:34, Mark 4:33) In time, when you tell your story to someone who’s going through tremendous hardship, you’ll be able to relate to them as well. Your story will speak to others. Your experiences can be explained to others going through similar circumstances and it will help them. Right now, when you’re with your neighbors, your friends, or even someone random that you come into contact with and you find yourself telling the story of where you were during the storm, or what you’ve had to deal with since, what is it that you realize You find that you have a camaraderie…that others can relate to what you’ve gone through…that they can cope with knowing you’ve been through the worst too and you’re still here…with an ongoing, unfinished story.
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Continued on our Facebook page!

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You read the words. The message is clear. Keep out.
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Do you Or don't you
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The messiness of circumstances can keep us away from people who need help. Keep us away from giving a blessing. Keep us away from receiving a blessing.
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We set up camp across from this house to work in the Panama City neighborhood. Around lunchtime the owner of the house wandered over and began talking.
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He and his family had decided to stay through Hurricane Michael. Until early that Wednesday morning, October 11. The gentleman received a phone call from a trusted friend. It was brief: tell your family to leave now!
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It was 5:30 a.m. He called his grown daughter. Get the grandchild out of bed and go! Go west! Go west! She did. He was glad. He stayed behind and experienced the worst hurricane of his life.
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His first impulse afterwards was to guard the belongings in this house. At all costs. But now
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He told our volunteers to go in, find something they need. Inside was a collection of goods he once sold. But now he wanted to give it away. The Keep-Out house was inviting us in.
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When we prejudge others by their signs, by their looks, by their outer layers, we can miss their deeper gifts. But if we can just show up, be available, and listen, we'll discover there's enough of God to go around for everyone.
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#hurricanemichael #hurricanestories #par #prepareandrespond #disasterrelief

2018-11-19 22:09
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Among the detritus of #HurricaneMichael, a random #toilet, unmoored from its home somewhere in #MexicoBeach ..

2018-11-19 22:06
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Landscape might look a little different but the vibe’s the same
Come enjoy your Thanksgiving break at MPCL, where we’ve got lots to be thankful for
#motofamily #hurricanemichael #thanksgiving

Argos! We need your help! The Math Association is doing a Christmas toy drive benefitting foster kids affected by hurricane Michael in Panama City. We will be collecting items until December 10th in building 4 room 223. If you have any questions, contact us here or send us an email at the address on the flyer. #christmas #toys #toydrive #hurricanemichael #math #stem #uwf #savechristmas

Don't you want one! Buy this baby onesie or check out our other great apparel, all benefiting Hurricane Michael victims, now at pandhandle-proud.com. (Baby not included!) 100% of proceeds help Hurricane Michael victims. #PanhandleProud #HurricaneMichael
Link in profile! Help us help the Panhandle and SHARE this post!

2018-11-19 20:41
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@twomenjax co-owner Pete Ruffing, St Andrews Baptist Church Representative Cheryl, and @twomenpanamacity co-owner Sean Wise pose with Hurricane Michael donations driven down by Ruffing from Jacksonville, Florida for Michael survivors. "We want to provide whatever we can to help get the Panhandle back on their feet and give them one less thing to worry about," Ruffing said.
Donations were collected by @igolfrealty, First Coast Apartment Association, Liiberty Pines Academy Wolves Football 2018, and Veterans of Foreign Wars, Bryan Totten Memorial Post 2391 - The WiFi Post then picked up by Two Men and a Truck Jacksonville and delivered to the church around noon. "As long as I'm breathing, I'll be doing this work," Cheryl said.
Donations included a wheelchair, two walkers, paper products, personal hygiene items, and cleaning supplies. "Movers Who Care is @twomentruck's motto," Wise said. "We are committed to helping our community put their lives back together in whatever we can." Thank you to @wmbbnews13 for coming out to cover the story!
#HurricaneMichael #850Strong #PanhandleStrong #FloridaStrong #StrongerTogether #ForwardTogether #TwoMenPanamaCity #TwoMenJacksonville #TwoMenAndATruck

We walked this white sandy trail almost a year ago in search of a bald eagle nest, which we found! Today this beautiful state park is closed, it has become an island, cut off from the Cape. Not sure what the future holds for it.

"Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.” —Daryn Kagan
In the aftermath of the first Category 4 hurricane to hit Florida, we are watching as ordinary people do extraordinary things to support their communities, or their surrounding communities. Young Living member and Young Living Foundation Ambassador, Chase Harrison, reached out to his resources to gather the names of affected members and traveled from Mobile, Alabama to Panama City Beach, Florida to distribute supplies to those in need. Members Tina Ciesla and Luisa Garcia also coordinated efforts, driving to affected communities and distributing supplies.
We couldn’t be prouder of how our members go above and beyond to support their Young Living family! If you are interested in getting involved to help those affected by Hurricane Michael, please contact The Sonder Project, an organization dedicated to assisting with clean up and restoration efforts in the area at http://www.thesonderproject.org/get-involved today.
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#younglivingfoundation #younglivingfamily #thesonderproject #ylgivesback #supportyourneighbor #servantheart #helpinghand #empower #hurricanemichael #oilyfamily

2018-11-19 19:55
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Meet 1602.
I plucked this beast of A lemon off a little tree that survived Hurricane Michael in Port St Joe... at the address number 1602.
And now, Im going to take the seeds from it and make baby lemon trees... so that hurricane surviving lemon tree from Florida can not just live on... but have roots elsewhere.
When life hands you a bad hurricane.... you grow lemons.
#food #lemons #floridastrong #PortStJoe #IllHaveLemonsForMyTequila #1602 #hurricanemichael

2018-11-19 19:51
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We won't be stopped
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Hurricane Michael shut down every single gym in town (8 gyms + several Crossfit Boxes and couple of training studios).
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Now 40days later we only have 1 gym open (and couple of Crossfit boxes so there are alot of people searching for some kind of structure and exercise.
Something to get some kind of normalcy back.
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We might still be dealing with the Michael aftermath but we also have goals and want to stay health and strong. 🔅
I decided to do a boot camp, something to just give people some basic strength and cardio training. And today was the first one.
Only had couple of people but we had a great workout.
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We have access to some weights and a whole basketball court to run around on so we can do plenty.
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It's free/donation and all fitness levels are welcome.
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Events are on GlacierBodies Facebook page and are every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday while there's interest and weather permits (cause we're outside)
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Thank you too the ladies that showed up today.
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#GlacierBodies #ImFitPC #850Strong #HurricaneMichael #BayCounty #1stPhorm #NeverQuit #FitMom #WeDoTheWork #BeThe1 #BestSelf #DuesPaid

Walking the dog this morning I noticed a weed flower growing close to the swamp next to my house. I wandered over to look a little closer at the fallen trees around it and ended up climbing the trees and taking pics. You don’t realize how big they are until you see them like this. The largest fallen tree is laying parallel to my house and I realized how blessed we were that it did not fall into our bedroom. We didn’t get off easy but it could have been much worse. #lookingforthesilverlining #hurricanemichael #850strong #panhandlestrong #jacksoncountyfl #floridastrong #iphonephotography

2018-11-19 19:27
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The deviation left by #hurricanemichael in #panamacity Fl, only a month later and so many people are still struggling to recover! The damage is overwhelming and familiar to those who went through Katrina! My brother and i where able to salvage his car this weekend, but there are so many people left with nothing! Im blessed my family lived through this catastrophe! #prayforpanamacity because its still a war zone out there! Looting is a big problem! #evo #projectcar #damn #racecar #mitsubishievo #auto

Meet the Hambly family: Rebecca, Nathan, Madison, 11, and Memphis, 8. 🏠👨‍👩‍👦🔨They rode out Hurricane Michael in their home, which is surrounded by trees. “It was terrifying,” Rebecca said. “My 80-year-old father made up a game for the kids of counting how many trees they heard falling. We thought it would, maybe, be three. We stopped counting at 57.” #mennonite #mennonitedisasterservice #hurricanemichael

I needed a new coffee table and I had a day off. On the right is the laminate flooring that we had to rip out of my parents house post hurricane. On the left and underneath is all fence board and 4x4s scrapped from fences in the hood. #reducereuserecycle #hurricanemichael